Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A resident of Savannah exhibits one
hundred and twenty-four large sweet
potatoes, which were grown on o sim
gle vine. They completely ill bar
rel.
Grows distribute many tree seeds,
such as acorns and nuts, by plucking
them and carrying them away, drop
ping them again at some distance from
the place of starting.
1t IS related that Chicago woman
who has had three husbands, all of
whom she has ..disembarrassed'' her
self of, is writing book on "How to
Make Home Happy. Chicago Times.
At the present day the aristocracy
of dogs is as well defined as the aris-
tocracy of their masters, and dog brain
is not so dull as to be oblivious to the
great distinction made in their favor;
the noted pet dog of Paris knows its
rank, and looks down on plebeian
churls accordingly.
DIR. Junker, the Russian explorer,
In an interview at Brussels said he had
! received letters from Emin Bey dated
last November. In those, Emin Bey
said the routes between Uganda and
| Wadeli were open. DR.. Junker thinks
that the success of Stanley's relief ex-
pedition is, barring accidents, assured.
A woman in Cuthbert, Ga, is the
mother of eight living children, the
oldest fourteen years and the youngest
six months of age. All her children
are blessed with perfect eyesight, and
yet neither the oldest nor the youngest
ever saw its father, while all the Others
have seen their father San Francisco
Chronicle.
A German man of science has
taken four heads of hair of equal weight,
and then proceeded to count the in
dividual hairs. One was Of the red
variety, and it was found to contain
80, 900 hairs. Next comes the black,
with 103,0 900 hairs to its credit. The
brown had 109, 900 and the blonde 140,-
OOO.-Bostom Budget.
Alexander E. Tucker, writing to
Engineering, says that he has success
fully edged growing tools for chill
rolls by dipping the actual cutting por-
ton in mercury. No more of the steel
than is actually necessary should be
dipped, as, while imparting extreme
hardness, it naturally makes the body
Of the tool extremely brittle. Boston
Budget.
"A peculiar will has been filed in
the registrars office at Pittsburgh by
Mrs. Martha Matthews, daughter Of
the decedent, which reads as follows:
PITTSBURGH, May 6. 1887.
Martha Matthews, my mother, authorized me
to collect her Nancy for funeral expenses: bal
ance for me. Her will. her
ELLEN II GILLESPIE.
mark.
u;tnesses MARTHA GRIER
"i'0' } ESTHER FLEMING.
Iron says that if continuous tele-
gram wire were strung from New York
to San Francisco, and rainstorm
should be in progress along the entire
route, the shrinkage caused in the wire
by the rain would amount to one hum
dred and twenty miles, and for smaller
distances the proportion would be the
same. 1.-The above shows" says Iron,
THAT underground telegraphs have be-
come necessity.
|. The revived discussions as to the
combinations of ink and paper least
trying to the eyes of readers has, in
this country, brought into public no
taI xyit inly
on red and green paper. A German
printer, of Arnheim, on the other hand,
enthusiastically advocates the use of
blue ink on green paper as the least
hurtful tints for the eyes to dwell upon.
Public Opinion.
The variable star Algol is SO infn-
itely distant from the earth that it takes
thirty years for its light to reach us.
So we see it as was thirty years ago,
not as it is to-day. When one of its
dissertations occurs, therefore, the one
that is visible to US occurred genera
ton ago, and about four thousand such
dissertations have taken place, and
started on their way hither since the
one we see happened.-M Y. Examiner.
Admiral Farragut's flagship, the
Hartford, is the only one Of the old
naval hulks at Mare Island Navy Yard
which has not been condemned. The
sloops Lackawanna, Shenandoah,
Wachusett and Cyane have been orr
dered sold. The Lackawanna was in
the bombardment Of Mobile, and while
ramming the rebel ship Tennessee tore
off about twenty-five feet of the side of
Farragut's flagship. The old admiral
looked over the side and shouted:
go ahead, boys; there are some fire
boards left.-Pu5tic Opinion.
There are five hundred thousand
more women than men in Great Brit
ain. There is like disparity in Ger
many and in some of the United States.
Whether this be accounted as de-
ficiency of the male or as a surplus of
the female population, it is matter